#345: Severed Head Stabbed On Japanese School Fence With Note In Mouth - “Let’s Play A Game”

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Kenta's Tuesday morning routine was always the same — a 5 a.m. breakfast of rice, miso soup, and salted salmon, followed by his walk to work at Tomogaoka Middle School, where he greeted students at the blue gates every morning. But today was different. Kenta took the same route as always — turned the same corner — and dropped his briefcase onto the ground. His hand flew to his mouth. Maybe he let out a scream, maybe he didn’t – and it was all just in his head. Shaking, Kenta read the letter: "This is the beginning of a game You stupid police Try and stop me if you can Murder is something I cannot help but enjoy There's nothing I want to see MORE than people's deaths Let the foul vegetables be punished with death Let there be bloody judgment for my many years of bitterness." On the blue metal gates of the school — right next to the sign that read TOMOGAOKA MIDDLE SCHOOL — sprouting from one of the jagged metal picks of the fence - The severed head of an 11-year-old. The note was shoved in his mouth. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.1	His breakfast is the same almost Badabing, Badaboom.
0:33.2	His breakfast is the same almost nearly every single morning.
0:37.2	There's no differences between Sunday or Wednesday.
0:40.9	Today happened to be a Tuesday and he's sitting in front of an all-too-familiar plate of the same food.
0:47.0	5 a.m. it starts with a steaming bowl of rice, each grain perfectly cooked. There's a cup of miso soup, the tofu pieces are just bobbing around at the top. There's a plate of salted salmon. The flesh is pink, it's glistening, it's prepared just right.
1:04.0	This is a quintessential breakfast in Japan.
1:07.0	It's warm, comforting, nourishing.
1:10.0	Not that it mattered anyway, since all of it was going to be on the floor very, very soon.
1:15.2	Kenta checks the time on the clock. It's more of a habit than anything, really. He was never
1:20.4	late. I mean, this is his morning routine. It is always the same. He is
1:23.9	meticulous but he likes to check the clock just in case. When he's done eating
1:29.6	he gets up to wash up and change into the same exact suit that he wears to work almost nearly five days a week.
1:36.0	He mentally walks through the itinerary for the day.
1:38.6	He has to get to work, meetings with all the teachers before the first bell rings,
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